The cost to go to school in the United States in 2013 was 63 billion dollars. If you subtract 22 billion dollars that was already spent on education you get a grand total of 41 billion dollars. which seems like a lot, but you can actually get this down to zero by doing a couple of things. 1) legalize marijuana. 2) release everyone who was in jail for marijuana possession charges. 3) reduce the amount paid to congress members to $90,000 dollars a year. 4) reduce the amount paid to the president by 200,000 a year. 5) take approximately $4.5-5 billion from a) pensions b) defense c) the category of "general Government" and d) welfare.
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This is the reasoning behind my petition.